Word: somes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in heavily Democratic Jersey City, where Mayor Kenny made no effort at all to produce votes for Boss Hague's candidate, Driscoll managed to pile up a plurality of some 18,000 votes. (The day after the election, Mayor Kenny received a small parcel from Wene's...
Johnny Hynes's election gave Boston a long-needed chance for some political reform, and the mayor-elect hoped to oblige. First, he would sweep some 200 Curley appointees out of City Hall, including two of old Jim's sons. "Our city," said Hynes, "needs a new moral...
Call Out the A.S.P.D.! The Military District of Washington announced a daring experiment in unification: it was getting ready to put the Army's MPs and the Navy's Shore Patrol out of business. Some time around the first of the year, the MPs and SP would be...
So far, the Chinese Reds have shown themselves utterly uninhibited by the presence of U.S. diplomats. But State hopes that once formal diplomatic relations are established, the Reds will have to treat U.S. representatives with a little more respect. At present some U.S. representatives, far from getting useful reports on...
Last month the Czech Communist government brought obviously phony charges of espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new...